Mokslininkas paradigmų Virsme
A Scientist in the Area of Paradigma

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the social phenomenon related to the scientist B. Bitinas, whose work fall under the period of the scientific paradigm shift in historical time. The uniqueness of the case lies according to the article in that the scientist, having drawn heavily upon the classical educational paradigm in his work, not only experiences a shift in scientific thought himself, but also, being aware of the need for contemporaneously determined replacement of the classical paradigm with the free educational paradigm, acknowledges the necessity of such a paradigm shift and justifies it in terms of the theory of the educational philosophy. On the basis of analysis of the scientist’s work the following conclusions are made in the article: The scholar considers the shift in educational paradigm to be an inevitability caused by new challenges of the 21st century as well as new goals of individual education set following the restoration of the independence of Lithuania in 1990.

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